One of the things that most attracts me to coffee shops is the atmosphere of productivity. I like to be around people who are working on something. Their various screenplays, poems, degrees, business plans, contracts and books underway may fail spectacularly, but to see them in the making is a pleasure.
I think this atmosphere is to some degree a product of coffee itself. Not only does it promote rational thought; the act of drinking it encourages an additional activity. One's attention is not fully occupied by drinking coffee the way it can be by food and it doesn't encourage socialization the way booze does. The best accompaniment for a coffee is an intellectual task, be it reading, paperwork or a game of chess.
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